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ELEVATING PROPHET MUHAMMAD TOA POSITION OF GODHOOD

ELEVATING PROPHET MUHAMMAD

TO A POSITION OF GODHOOD

By: Kassim Ahmad

12 June, 2017

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Most Muslims everywhere are not even aware they have committed the
greavious crime of associating God with Muhammad. The attestation of
faith is contained in Surah Ali-Imran,
(3) verse 18, "God bears witness there is no god except He, and so do
the angels and those who possess knowledge, Truthfully and equitably He
is the absolute god. There is no god but He, the Almighty, Most Wise."

In Surah Al-Munafiqun (63: 1)
the second testimony is rejected. This second testimony goes, "When the
hypocrites come to you, they say, "We bear witness that you are the
messenger of God." God knows that you are His messenger and God bears
witness that you are liars."

Twenty-five messengers of God are mentioned in the Quran. Why does this
second testimony mention Muhammad alone? How did prophets Ibrahim,
Moses and Jesus Christ testify?

Religion or deen,
meaning a way of life is the way of life decreed by God. Because
Prophet Muhammad (note that I do not distinguish him from from other
prophets) except that he was the last, and he sent to the world with the
last divine scripture. This scripture is protected by an awesome
mathemetically-structured code called Code 19.

Most Muslims, when Muhammad's name is mentioned, repeat the mantra sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam
. (on him be God's help and peace), blithely forgetting that a few
verse before that (verse 43) states God's help to believers. The verse
on God helping Muhammad is 56. See how most Muslims go against God's
order. Look at the consequences. We have fallen to a very low place in
the world. We were the Number One Power sixty years after the prophet's
death. We occupied that place for eight centuries. Baghdad was the
capital of the world. Medieval Europe sat at the feet of Baghdad for
three centuries before their Renaissance

Amazingly Muslim scholars have not answered the question of the fall of
Islam. Do they think of Islam as simply rituals? Do they not know that
Islam made great contributions to world civilization? It is high time
they do and pave the way for a second Muslim civilization that must
come. It must come because Europe and by extension the U.S is bankrupt
and finished. Genuine Islam as contained in the Quran must be creatively
applied to suit modern circumstances.

It is reported that Islam is the fastest growing religion now. This is
good news, but that alone is not enough. There must be thinkers and
philosophers who can think through the maze of modern life, clearly
define the Muslim way of life and solve its problems. successfully.

In this great endeavour, we must distinguish between Arabization and
Islam. An Arab is a national category; Islam is a religious category.
The two are not the same.

About Me

(About Kassim Ahmad
By: M. Bakri Musa)
Kassim Ahmad is Malaysia's foremost thinker and philosopher. He grabbed national headlines in the 1950s with his dissertation on the characters of Hang Tuah (Perwatakan Hang Tuah), the Malay literary classic. In it he challenged the traditional interpretation and made the hitherto hero Hang Tuah as nothing more than a palace hack, and elevated the anti-hero Hang Jebat as the true hero, willing to kill even the sultan in defence of honor and principles.
Kassim was jailed for nearly five years under the ISA for daring to express openly his political views, an experience which he recounted in his book, Universiti Kedua (Second University).
Kassim again shook the Malay world with his "Hadith: A Re-Examination" in which he challenges the infallibility of the purported words of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.
Except for an honorary doctorate in Letters conferred by the National University of Malaysia, the country has not seen fit to honor this great public intellectual.
June 2005